Beginning Balance

About Beginning Balance

Jesse Mecham and Mark Butler teach you how to manage your business cash flow, hone your business model, and not freak out about money.

Publisher

Jesse Mecham

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 May 2021

Latest episode

22 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

27 of 120 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Mar 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Stop Trusting Your Gut: Try The Constanza Protocol

   Host Mark Butler explores the "Constanza Protocol" to break negative business habits by doing the opposite of his intuition, offering listeners a strategy to overcome personal patterns.

2. 

   21 Feb 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Jesse Hires Mark, and the Inevitability of Change

   Jesse Mecham, CEO of YNAB, discusses the inevitability of change in accounting processes with Mark Butler, founder of The Money School, and how to prepare for technological disruptions.

3. 

   7 Feb 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Jesse Introduces Spendfulness

   YNAB's Jesse Mecham introduces "spendfulness," a concept describing intentional spending, and explores the company's evolution beyond budgeting to capture users' self-actualization, in this episode.

Inside a recent episode

Stop Trusting Your Gut: Try The Constanza Protocol

Published 22 Mar 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yes. And so I should do the opposite. Yeah. If it occurs to me to do one thing, I should do exactly the opposite. And it's been paying off beautifully. You've implemented it. Oh, I've implemented it aggressively. People need to find that episode where Costanza can't be successful with them. You know about it. Oh, absolutely. So he's like, I'll just do the opposite. He just starts slaying. I did not know about it. Oh, it's so fun. My client. They looked at each other like Costanza. And I was like, what are you talking about? And so I went and found it. It's so good. It's so good. He's just like every instinct I've ever had is wrong. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

69 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

38 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

44

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

93

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